re
pronunciation
How to pronounce re in British English:
UK [reɪ]
How to pronounce re in American English:
US [reɪ]
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- Noun:
- the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Word Origin
- re
- "with reference to," used from c. 1700 in legalese, from Latin (in) re "in the matter of," from ablative case of res "matter, thing." Its use is execrated by Fowler in three different sections of "Modern English Usage."
Example
- 1. But it was impossible to re dit the film .
- 2. Therefore it takes time to learn how to re - establish contact .
- 3. The negotiations were re - energised after the 2007 election of kevin rudd , australia 's mandarin-speaking prime minister .
- 4. The frankfurt zoological society their main funders moved quickly to re stablish operations at marula-puku with the zambian government 's endorsement .
- 5. Note that some decision problems can be re formulat ed as classification problems in the following way : each decision is actually classifying a state of the world by the proper action to take in that state !